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‘High Fructose Corn Syrup’ or ‘Corn Sugar,’ It’s Not the First Renamed Food

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If you’re the industry demonized as a driver of the obesity epidemic, image gurus might tell you it’s time for a makeover — starting with a new name.

Manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup are doing just that. This week, they petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be allowed to use the alternative name “corn sugar.”

You can find high fructose corn syrup on the labels of baked goods, cereals, jams, soft drinks, sauces, condiments and ice creams — one of the foods to which it provides bulk. The Corn Refiners Association, which also makes ethanol, starch, corn oil and corn-based animal feed, feels its sweetener is misunderstood.

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